European Free Alliance

06/10/2026

🇪🇺 Nearly ten years after 1 October, Amnesty is finally opening the way for Catalan political leaders to regain their rights and for those in exile to return.

But amnesty is not the end of the political conflict.

👉 Read full article: bio 🔝

06/10/2026

🇪🇺 Catalonia: Amnesty at last, but the political conflict remains unresolved

Nearly ten years after 1 October, the Amnesty Law is finally opening the way for Catalan political leaders to regain their rights and for those in exile to return.

For EFA, this is an important step towards leaving judicialisation, imprisonment and exile behind. But amnesty cannot replace a political solution.

The demand for Catalonia’s right to decide its own future remains unresolved.

👉 Read our full article: https://efaparty.eu/news/catalonia-amnesty

05/10/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Proud to be in Wales this weekend with our member party Plaid Cymru for their conference!

EFA is confident that Plaid Cymru's leadership will bring Wales to a future rooted in fairness, empowerment and a better future for everyone. 🌻

23/09/2026

🏠 Europe’s housing crisis is not the same everywhere. So why should the solutions be?

The new European Housing Stress Index (EHSI) looks at where housing pressure is greatest and, crucially, why.

Swipe through to discover how territories can better understand the housing crisis and shape solutions that respond to their own realities.

Housing is a right. Our territories must have the tools to protect it.

HousingIsARight

16/09/2026

15/09/2026

Tomorrow, the European Parliament will hear the State of the Union.

But beyond the speeches, the political agendas and the institutional debates, there is a more important question:

Is Europe listening to its people?

Trust in our European institutions depends on people feeling heard, represented and confident that Europe is delivering for them.

So before tomorrow’s speech, we want to set out what we believe Europe needs to hear, and what it needs to deliver.

From competitive and resilient regions to climate security, democracy, common defence and a Europe that respects self-determination, these are the challenges we believe should be at the heart of Europe’s future.

Swipe to see what EFA expects from the State of the Union. # 🇪🇺

15/09/2026

Tomorrow, the European Parliament will hear the State of the Union.

But beyond the speeches, the political agendas and the institutional debates, there is a more important question:

Is Europe listening to its people?

Trust in our European institutions depends on people feeling heard, represented and confident that Europe is delivering for them.

So before tomorrow’s speech, we want to set out what we believe Europe needs to hear and what it needs to deliver.

From competitive and resilient regions to climate security, democracy, common defence and a Europe that respects self-determination, these are the challenges we believe should be at the heart of Europe’s future.

Swipe to see what EFA expects from the State of the Union 🇪🇺

11/09/2026

✊🏼 One more year, we are in Barcelona to celebrate the Catalan National Day with our member party Esquerra Republicana

We join the Catalan people’s claim for freedom, and we keep standing together to defend the right to self-determination!

10/09/2026

🏠 Europe cannot solve the housing crisis with one-size-fits-all solutions from Brussels 🇪🇺

The European Commission’s approach to housing risks treating a deeply territorial problem as if it were the same everywhere.

It isn’t.

Housing pressure in a major city is different from the reality of an island, a rural community, a border region or a territory facing intense tourism and short-term rentals.

Yet European housing policy too often overlooks these differences, and the people paying the price are those who can no longer afford to live in their own communities.

📊 THE EUROPEAN HOUSING STRESS INDEX

EFA is bringing the territories into the debate.

The European Housing Stress Index (EHSI) measures where housing pressure is greatest, and, crucially, why. By looking at affordability, availability and territorial pressures, it provides a clearer picture of the housing crisis and helps identify solutions adapted to each community.

Because you cannot fix Europe’s housing crisis if you do not understand where and how it happens.

We need more public and affordable housing, stronger local powers and action against speculation, not policies designed around the interests of the market alone.

Housing is a right, not a commodity.
And Europe must start listening to the territories.

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07/09/2026

The AfD’s result in Saxony-Anhalt is a journey into the past.

The strong result for the far-right AfD is a deeply worrying signal for Europe.

Europe certainly needs change: more democracy, greater social justice, stronger territorial cohesion and more power for its peoples and regions.

But the answer to Europe’s shortcomings cannot be to destroy what has been built.

The AfD offers a politics of division and exclusion — from expanding deportations and imposing obligations on asylum seekers to separating children with migrant backgrounds in education, weakening inclusion, restricting diversity and attacking public broadcasting.

A politics that rejects science, weakens education and inclusion, and creates first-, second- and third-class citizens through nationalism and ultra-conservatism is not a programme for the future. It is a journey into the past.

But we must also listen to what this result tells us. Frustration with economic conditions, communities and political systems cannot simply be dismissed.

The answer must be better democratic alternatives: stronger local economies, better public services, social security and communities where no territory or person is left behind.

This has always been central to EFA:

The future is not decided only in capitals. It is decided in every territory, every community and every town.